Off-Broadway is bustling: There's a modern American family that is Next to Normal in the new musical running through March 9 at Second Stage Theatre. There's a Jewish conversion excursion in Two Thousand Years, at the Acorn Theatre. And Kathleen Turner directs a splendid Crimes of the Heart at the Roundabout. And there's more.

Gary David Goldberg, 63, creator of Family Ties, the hit '80s TV show, as well as Spin City and Brooklyn Bridge, has written a memoir, Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went From Brooklyn to Hollywood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair (Harmony, $23.95). He discusses it with USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer: